The Barrow Unit
records (63m201): (dated 1918-1941, undated; 0.42 cubic feet; 2 boxes)
comprises correspondence, printed articles, newspaper clippings, photographs,
and official orders and rosters, documenting the volunteer military medical
unit known as the Barrow Unit, which provided medical services in England to
personnel of the U.S. Army during World War I.

The Howard I. Kinne
papers, 1912-1933 (62M85) include family correspondence before and during
the First World War. The collection also includes the scrapbook of a trip to
France after the war.

The Russell Des
Cognets papers (57m2): (dated 1918-1957, undated; 0.35 cubic feet; 3 boxes)
include the correspondence, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings Russell Des
Cognets collected relating to his service in France during World War I and as a
political activist during prohibition and the Great Depression.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Margaret Shannon papers
(2009ms175): The Margaret Shannon papers (dated 1961-1987; 6 cubic
feet; 6 boxes) consists of the files, records, and printed materials
created and collected by Margaret Shannon during her time as the Special
Projects Director of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) during
the 1970s.

Laura Clay music collection
(2011ms043): The Laura Clay music collection (dated 1810-1901, undated;
1.3 cubic feet; 5 boxes) primarily comprises 19th century sheet music
of works for piano and voice that were collected by Laura Clay.

James Still photographs and sound recordings
(pa87m12): The James Still photographs and sound recordings (dated
circa 1890s-2001, undated; 5.45 cubic feet; 12 boxes) are the personal
photographs and sound recordings of the writer James Still.

Reel World String Band records
(2016ms014): The Reel World String Band records (dated circa 1971-2016,
undated; 8.14 cubic feet; 19 boxes, 2 oversize boxes) primarily
comprise promotional fliers, concert posters, contracts, programs, and
articles that document the Kentucky women’s band and its commitment to
social justice advocacy from the band’s founding in 1977 to the present.

Marlow Cook moving image and audio recordings
(2012ms085): The Marlow Cook moving image and audio recordings (dated
1969-1974, undated; 1.25 cubic feet; 1 box, 2 items) consist of color
and black and white 16mm films, reel-to-reel audio recordings and one
2-inch quadruplex videotape documenting the family life and political
career of Marlow W. Cook (1926-2016), member of the United States Senate
from Kentucky in the 91st, 92nd and 93rd Congresses (1969-1974).

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Controlled vocabularies are the blood coursing
through the veins of professional cataloging and archival
description. The Library of Congress Subject Headings is the
authority. While staff were processing interviews from the Kentucky Bourbon
Tales Oral History Project, the University of Kentucky Libraries Louie
B. Nunn Center for Oral History discovered a major problem - no LOC Subject
Heading for Bourbon whiskey! Catalogers and metadata specialists around
the world were forced to use the ambiguous and misleading term
"Whiskey" to describe something that was declared by US Congress in
1964 to be an indigenous product of the United States. All Bourbon
is whiskey, but not all whiskey is Bourbon. This video reveals the
Nunn Center's epic journey to give Bourbon whiskey its
rightful place in the LOC Subject Headings.

Friday, August 19, 2016

This
scrapbook contains funeral notices and newspaper obituaries collected
by General John M. McCalla (1793-1873). McCalla began to collect funeral
notices when he was a child and eventually amassed a collection of over
400 notices. The notices and obituaries in this scrapbook are primarily
for the funerals of citizens of Lexington, Kentucky. The collection
covers a period of over 40 years (1802-1846) and includes notices for
prominent Kentuckians like Henry Clay, Eliza Todd (mother of Mary Todd
Lincoln), and Charles Wilkins (then-owner of Mammoth Cave).

Funeral notice for Mrs. Jane Luckie, killed by lightning at the Presbyterian Church, funeral held July 21, 1817

Funeral notice for Mr. John Boswell, killed in a duel, funeral held April 19, 1818